Note 33 — Chapter I · Why I went to Great Salt Lake City.—The various Routes.—The Line of Country traversed.—Diaries and Disquisitions. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Exploration and Survey, etc., chap. ix.
[34] “Prairie bitters”—made of a pint of water and a quarter of a gill of buffalo gall—are considered an elixir vitæ by old voyageurs.